wire house

or wirehouse

noun

, Stock Exchange.

1. a brokerage firm with branch offices connected with their main office by a private system of telephone, telegraph, and teletype wires.

Example Sentences

Crabs are particular critters, and they won’t step into your little wire house if your bait is rank or your wire rusty and clogged with sea growth.

From Literature

All of the big wire house firms, like J.P.

From New York Times

It’s no coincidence that some of the finest television brought to us in this golden era – The Wire, House of Cards, Westworld, The Handmaids Tale – has concerned itself with the immediate sociopolitical concerns of the viewing populace.

From The Guardian

The problem, perhaps, is precisely those standards: After “The Wire,” “House of Cards,” “Breaking Bad” and “The Americans,” visual candy just isn’t enough.

From New York Times

Holland, the current chair of the European Film Academy, has worked in recent years on such US TV shows as The Wire, House of Cards and the New Orleans-based Treme.

From BBC